Alicia

Learn everything you need to start making your own artist’s booksor hand-bound journals! In this class, learn techniques and tips to make your own hand-bound books. We’ll go over a bunch of stitching methods, page-folding, and book cover options. Materials will be provided, if you want to bring some special paper or materials you have, we invite you to do so.

Shelby Arnold is a paper engineer who makes pop-up books, origami, and artist books. She works for Robert Sabuda making children’s pop-up books and pop-up cards for his MoMA line. She has a degree in graphic design from Pratt Institute, which happens to be the same school Alicia went to as well.

Alicia Gibb is a recovering librarian. She has a degree in art education and loves little bits of paper. Alicia currently works as the Gadget Wrangler for Bug Labs. Alicia curates her own artist book collection and draws stick figures.

The Open Hardware Summit is currently looking for speakers and sponsors. And there are lots more ways to get involved of course. You can also give your feedback on v0.3 of the Open Source Hardware Definition here: http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW

We’re excited to promote The Parts and Crafts Collective! Kids and young adults are the future and we love knowing they’ll be exposed to hardware hacking with William Macfarlane and his team of super teachers. The Parts and Crafts Collective is hosting kids classes around NYC, check out their eventbrite page for details and registration.

You want to sew, but don’t know how. You sort of know how to sew, but want to learn more from like-minded folks in a no-pressure environment. You want to hang out, work on your sewing or related projects, and get feedback or ideas on your stuff. You want new ideas and to branch out with your skills, to share skills, or just to learn some simple and practical sewing. Come to the sewing rebellion! It will be fun, no pressure, and you will walk away with new ideas and skills. Bring a project and a few supplies, you can borrow what you don’t have. Or, you might just get a great new idea from one of the easy and basic patterns we have on hand. Bring yourself, a garment to mend or alter, or something you don’t know what to do with. Collective creativity and skill-sharing will provide the rest!

Stop shopping, start sewing with us Sunday, July 26th from 4:30-7 pm, hosted by Amelia from the Sewing Rebellion!

Think Geek sent us 7 boxes full of Cyber Surfers that needed to be “disposed of”. We said no problem. What are we doing with 20+ cyber surfers? Having a helicopter war of course! The rules are as follows:

The destruction will take place on Feb. 28th an hour before sunset. Don’t be late.

The location is still TBA

You must mod your chopper to be on a different frequency than the others, fly it on xbee or swap the crystal

If you are getting this post emailed to you – you know who you are and what your role is

Any way of destruction is acceptable as long as it doesn’t harm humans from 10 yards away

Be creative, the person who takes down the most other choppers wins

This is what the inside of your controller looks like, but you should already know that: